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Old January 12th, 2019 #14
Ray Allan
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Originally Posted by Nikola Bijeliti View Post
I'm not in any way positive about this, but it was my understanding that the name Soyuz was chosen because two Soyuz spacecraft could dock with each other, unlike the prior Vostok and Voskhod. The first docking in space actually occurred in 1966 on Gemini 8, when Neil Armstrong successfully docked the Gemini spacecraft with the unmanned Agena target vehicle. However, the first docking of two manned spacecraft and the first crew transfer in space occurred in 1969, when Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 docked in space, and two cosmonauts transferred from one vehicle to the other.

Soyuz 4 and 5 Rendezvous & Docking: Four in the Cosmos pt1-2 1969 Russian 14min

Soyuz 4 and 5 Rendezvous & Docking: Four in the Cosmos pt2-2 1969 Russian 6min
Jan. 14-18 2019 is the 50th anniversary of Soyuz 4 and 5. They flew the mission Soyuz 1 and 2 were intended to do in April 1967 where Vladimir Komarov was tragically killed just as Apollo 7 in October 1968 flew the mission meant for the ill-fated crew of Apollo 1 who died in the launch pad fire on January 27, 1967.
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